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      <title>Michael G. Foster School of Business: News Articles &amp; In The Media</title>
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              <title>The Seattle Times - State's jobless rate lets employers ask more from potential hires</title>
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              <description><![CDATA[With the state's jobless rate bouncing between 8.9 percent and 9.3 percent for months, companies seem to be raising the bar for job seekers. Vandra Huber, professor of management and organization, is quoted.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>TechFlash.com - Ten reasons why startups fail</title>
              <link>http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/the_top_10_reasons_that_early-stage_startups_fail.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Startup companies can fail for any number of reasons. In fact, aQuantive co-founder Scott Lipsky said he came up with a list of 721 reasons. Luckily, for the students, faculty and media who attended his talk as part of Entrepreneur Week, Lipsky shortened the list to just ten critical mistakes.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>BusinessWeek - Change in Plans</title>
              <link>http://www.businessweek.com/print/bschools/content/nov2009/bs2009114_875502.htm</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Megan Lum, a student in Foster's Executive MBA program, writes about deciding whether to stay in the program or not after losing her job.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>BusinessWeek - A Brutal Wakeup Call for Part-Time B-Schools</title>
              <link>http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_46/b4155048800331.htm</link>
              <description><![CDATA[The economic crisis has hit executive MBA and non-degree programs hard, but the savviest are adapting to the new market. Megan Lum, a student in Foster's Executive MBA program, is featured.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>Seattle Magazine - 2009 Power List</title>
              <link>http://www.seattlemag.com/0p135a1785/power-09-james-jiambalvo/</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Dean Jim Jiambalvo is featured as one of Seattle Magazine's 2009 Most Influential People of the Year.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>TechFlash.com - Taking a trip down memory lane with HomeGrocer.com</title>
              <link>http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/venturewire_takes_a_trip_down_memory_lane_with_homegrocercom.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[As part of VentureWire's 10 year anniversary, the publication is revisiting some of the bigger news stories of 1999. And today, they dig into a company that was near and dear to many in the Seattle area: HomeGrocer.com. A case study prepared by Suresh Kotha, professor of management, is cited. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>The Seattle Times - Keep consumers safe by bringing back Glass-Steagall Act</title>
              <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2010171846_edit02wamu3.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times editorial board calls for the breaking up of large bank companies and the re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act. Alan Hess, professor of finance, is quoted.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>The Seattle Times - Keep consumers safe by bringing back Glass-Steagall Act</title>
              <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2010171846_edit02wamu3.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times editorial board calls for the breaking up of large bank companies and the re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act. Alan Hess, professor of finance, is quoted. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>TechFlash - Women in technology offer tips on breaking into the business</title>
              <link>http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/women_tech_geeks_offer_tips_on_breaking_into_the_business.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[TechFlash asked a few of the attendees at a recent Women in Technology event how they got interested in technology and what advice they'd offer to young women looking to break into the tech business now. Emer Dooley, lecturer of business and computer science and affiliated with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is quoted. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>The Seattle Times - Protect consumers from financial predators</title>
              <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2010163799_edit30wamu2.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times editorial board comments on Congress's proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Alan Hess, professor of finance, is quoted. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>Washington Post - For Gun-Shy Consumers, Debit Is Replacing Credit</title>
              <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603841_pf.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[The recession has cooled the American ardor for living on credit. After years of saying "Charge it," consumers are more often paying with their debit cards instead. Lewis Mandell, professor of finance, is quoted. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>The Olympian - Venture leaders bow out</title>
              <link>http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/990197.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Most of Venture Financial Group's executives and board members no longer are associated with the company, having stepped down because the company has such a limited role now that its primary asset, Venture Bank, was closed and sold this month. Alan Hess, professor of finance, is quoted.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>The Seattle Times - Foster mourns the passing of Emeritus Professor Endel-Jakob Kolde</title>
              <link>http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=endel-jakob-kolde&amp;pid=133742265</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Endel-Jakob Kolde, Emeritus Professor of Marketing and International Business, died in Kirkland, WA on September 20, 2009. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>MSNBC - Hotel bargains — with a surprise twist </title>
              <link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33077937/ns/travel-tips/</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Many hotels are offering a variety of value-added perks ranging from free nights, meals, spa treatments, theater tickets -- even car washes. Robert Palmatier, assistant professor of marketing, is quoted. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>Entrepreneur - Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges for 2009</title>
              <link>http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges/index.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Foster is 7th among graduate programs in entrepreneurship according to rankings compiled by The Princeton Review and published in Entrepreneur magazine.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>National Public Radio - Economic Crisis Creates Some Winners, Too</title>
              <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112763167</link>
              <description><![CDATA[The financial crisis left a trail of victims in its wake, but there have also been some economic winners. Some companies have done well despite the economic turmoil; others because of it. Alan Hess, professor of finance, is quoted.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>BusinessWeek - Dodging Credit-Card Reform</title>
              <link>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_38/b4147026262530.htm</link>
              <description><![CDATA[New credit-card rules, designed to curb the industry's abusive practices, went into effect a few weeks ago. But already lenders have found ways to get around the regulatory roadblocks.... Lewis Mandell, professor of finance, is quoted. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>BusinessWeek.com - Grad's Backup Plans</title>
              <link>http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0903_grad_backup_plans/index.htm</link>
              <description><![CDATA[What do you do when your industry tanks before you break into it, but not before the ink dries on your diploma? Eddie Minkoff (MBA '09) is featured.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>Puget Sound Business Journal - University of Washington gives profs some schooling in entrepreneurship</title>
              <link>http://uwnews.org/apps/dailyclips/scraped/2009-08-21_entrepreneurship.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Foster's Connie Bourassa-Shaw has spent years helping University of Washington students learn how to become entrepreneurs. But it was only after taking some time away from campus that she realized she'd overlooked another key group that also needed help grasping the world of business -- the faculty. ]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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              <title>The Seattle Times - Ballard Organics cleaning up with soaps, cleansers</title>
              <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/retailreport/2009614189_retailreport07.html</link>
              <description><![CDATA[Although small businesses have long struggled to persuade banks to loan them money, even the most "bankable" among them are getting turned down, said Alice Davis, chief of staff for the Seattle-based nonprofit Community Capital Development, an approved lender for the Small Business Administration. Research from Foster's Business & Economic Development Center is cited and William Bradford, professor of finance, is quoted.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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